FFmpeg 4.0 "Wu" is here

FFmpeg is my all time favorite CLI tool. The obscene amount time I have spent using FFmpeg over the years is just ridiculous, this is one of the few tools out there that I can’t live without. It goes without saying I deal with a lot of video editing. So naturally, I am very excited about this new major version release. You can see a quick list of major changes on their changelog. Some of the more exciting changes related to hardware acceleration that popped out to me:

Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding

NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding

Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter

OpenCL overlay filter

VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding

AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders

VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel

VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters

Most these involves hardware accelaration involving Intel QuickSync, OpenCL, VAAPI MJPEG, AMD AMF, VideoToolbox HEVC. Even though I have not gotten around running benchmarks, the few encoding tests I have done using Intel QuickSync and NVIDIA NVDEC, the speed bump is noticably much higher without any doubt. Chances are high your linux distro don’t have FFmpeg 4.0 available yet, but you always download binaries for you OS of choice from here: http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

~/Desktop: ffmpeg -i
ffmpeg version 4.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
  built with Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/4.0 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-version3 --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-opencl --enable-videotoolbox --disable-lzma
  libavutil      56. 14.100 / 56. 14.100
  libavcodec     58. 18.100 / 58. 18.100
  libavformat    58. 12.100 / 58. 12.100
  libavdevice    58.  3.100 / 58.  3.100
  libavfilter     7. 16.100 /  7. 16.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  1.100 /  5.  1.100
  libswresample   3.  1.100 /  3.  1.100
  libpostproc    55.  1.100 / 55.  1.100

FFmpeg 4.0 “Wu” is here

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